Bialystokביאליסטוק
Northeast Poland — Litvish-Hasidic frontier
Bialystok was a major Lithuanian-Polish Jewish center on the seam between Litvish and Hasidic worlds. R. Chaim Halberstam (Sanz dynasty) and R. Chaim Soloveitchik both had students teaching here. The city was 70% Jewish in 1900 (41,000 Jews); the community was annihilated in the Bialystok Ghetto uprising of August 1943.
7 teachers
Teachers who lived here
Rabbi Avraham Eisenstadt
Rabbi Avraham Eisenstadt (1812–1868)
birth 1812
Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Halpern
Rabbi Yom Tov Lipman Halpern (1816–1879)
death 1816–1879
R. Meir Simcha of Dvinsk
Meir Simcha HaKohen of Dvinsk (Or Sameach, Meshech Chochmah) (1843–1926)
study 1860
Meitcheter Illui
Rabbi Shlomo Polachek (1877–1928)
rabbinate 1921–1922
Rabbi Chaim Heller
Rabbi Chaim Heller (1879–1960)
birth 1879
The Steipler
Rabbi Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky (1899–1985)
study 1920–1925
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin
Rabbi Aryeh Leib Malin (1906–1962)
birth 1906